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Hey Mike, did you ever make good on that bet that you lost by stubbornly claiming that COVID was just a bad flu and it was never going to kill millions and fill
by blago 5y ago
Hey Mike, did you ever make good on that bet that you lost by stubbornly claiming that COVID was just a bad flu and it was never going to kill millions and fill hospitals, when the world was already burning? I'm going to go on the limb and guess not.
In case you forgot, @Lewton suggested that you donate here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly
BTW, did you actually confirm that you had COVID because as I remember it, you just had a feeling that prior sniffles might've been COVID.
- Mikeb85 5y agoYes I did donate and I would have even if I had won the bet. I have a soft spot for good causes even if I'm stubborn sometimes. Also, last pandemic that killed millions was a flu... Just sayin. Guess I was too optimistic about how far this one would spread. And yes it was confirmed that I had it (antibody test when things died down a lil). Since then many people who I know got Covid, they all had less symptoms than I did. I also had to quarantine a bunch of times for having contact with them (never got sick again though). Was an interesting year. How do you remember? As you pointed out, my bet was with Lewton (there's no DM feature here eh?).
- blago 5y agoIt's hard to forget someone with such poor, but loud, judgment, and arrogant aversion to numbers and logic.
- redis_mlc 5y agoActually, you're the one who's mouthy and arrogant. Bay Area hospital ICUs were never even half full in 2020. NIH estimated recetly that 5x the number of reported corona cases actually occurred. If the NIH can't determine the numbers, who are you to shame others? It's the recent corona delta version that is mostly causing the millions of deaths. So much for your "numbers and logic", big mouth.